TransNewGuinea.org

Warning!

TransNewGuinea.org is a database of the Trans-New Guinea language family and
friends. The Trans-New Guinea language family currently occupies most of
the interior of New Guinea. This family is possibly the third largest in
the world with 400 languages and is tentatively thought to have originated
with root-crop agriculture around 10,000 years ago. However, vanishingly little
is known about this family’s history.

This project aims to reveal the prehistory of New Guinea using the
linguistic comparative method combined with novel
computational phylogenetic methods.